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Guest Editorial
Special Issue on Internet of Things (IoT):
Architecture, Protocols and Services

I NTERNET of Things (IoT) has been emerging as the

next big thing in Internet. It is envisioned that billions
of physical things or objects will be outfitted with different
sumption and the throughput in terms of protocols per sec-
ond. In the paper “Development of Mobile Radiation Mon-
itoring System Utilizing Smartphone and its Field Tests in
kinds of sensors and actuators and connected to the Internet Fukushima” from Yang Ishigaki et al., the authors developed
via heterogeneous access networks enabled by technologies low-cost but accurate mobile radiation detectors, which can
such as embedded sensing and actuating, radio frequency be integrated with smart phones. The authors gave details
identification (RFID), wireless sensor networks, real-time and about hardware design, software design, and field test results.
semantic web services, etc. IoT is actually cyber-physical Honggang Li et al. in the paper entitled “Battery-Friendly
systems or a network of networks. With the huge number of Packet Transmission Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Net-
things/objects and sensors/actuators connected to the Internet, works” proposed battery-aware local optimization schemes
a massive and in some cases real-time data flow will be including task scheduling for different types of sensor applica-
automatically produced by connected things and sensors. It is tions in order to prolong the lifetime of battery-powered sensor
important to collect correct raw data in an efficient way; but nodes.
more important is to analyze and mine the raw data to abstract The second set includes fourteenpapers about efficient com-
more valuable information such as correlations among things munications and networking for IoT. Luca Foschiniet et al. in
and services to provide web of things or Internet of services. the paper entitled “Convergence of MANET and WSN in IoT
This special issue features recent and emerging advances Urban Scenarios” proposed a new solution to integrate and
IoT architecture, protocols, services and applications. More opportunistically exploit MANET overlays for boosting urban
than one hundred papers were received and peer-reviewed, data harvesting in IoT. The solution is validated in terms of
out of which thirty five papers were selected for publication, the feasibility and effectiveness. In the paper “Wireless Sensor
which cover topics including sensors and devices for IoT, Networks and the Internet of Things: Optimal Estimation with
efficient communications and networking for IoT, security and Non-uniform Quantization and Bandwidth Allocation”, Tao
privacy in IoT, crowdsensingand crowdsourcing, localization Jiang et al. studied the energy minimization problem for the
and tracking, services and applications, and IoT data modeling joint estimation of a noise-corrupted parameter in WSNs. The
and management. problem is approximated as a convex optimization and thus an
The first set of five papers discuss IoT sensor and device efficient iterative algorithm can be applied for a near-optimal
related issues. With the exponential growth of the number solution. Yanmin Zhu et al. in the paper entitled “When
of devices in Internet of Things applications, the addressing 3G Meets VANET: 3G-Assisted Data Delivery in VANETs”,
strategy issues have attracted much attention. In the paper investigated a sensory data gathering application of vehicular
“IPv6 Addressing Strategies for IoT”, Teemu Savolainen et al., ad hoc networks (VANET). The authors are to address the
concentrated on presenting serious challenges towards IPv6 hard problem of 3G-assisted data delivery in a VANET with
address allocation by examining how IPv6 can be effectively a budget constraint of 3G traffic. An optimization problem,
deployed for various IoT topologies particularly with emphasis thus, is formed, which can be solved by integer linear pro-
on address allocation. Yuhao Wang et al. in the paper entitled gramming. The conclusion is evaluated by using both synthetic
“A Multi-bit Identification Protocol for RFID Tag Reading” vehicular traces and real vehicular 3G traces. In the article “An
presented a multi-bit identification protocol which can iden- Experimental Study for Inter-User Interference Mitigation in
tify the reader’s receiving sequence multi-bit by multi-bit. Wireless Body Sensor Networks”, Bin Cao et al. investigated
The protocol is designed with the low communication over- and analyzed the impact of inter-user interference on packet
heads and high identification efficiency. Honorio Martin et al. delivery ratio and throughput. They conducted extensive exper-
in their paper “Efficient ASIC Implementation and Analy- iments based on TelosB wireless body sensor network plat-
sis of two EPC-C1G2 RFID Authentication Protocols” have form, considering unslotted CSMA/CA and slotted CSMA/CA
addressed implementation of Electronic Product Code (EPC) modes in IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, respectively. They also pro-
Class - 1 Generation -2 based on ASIC. They have explored posed a light-weight hopping approach based on practical
the design space and provided a detailed analysis of the wireless body sensor network systems and investigated the
area occupied by the synthesized circuits, their power con- performance in realistic environment. In “Scalable Channel
Allocation and Access Scheduling for Wireless Internet-of-
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2274906 Things”, Di Wu et al. presented “GAALS”, a grid-based
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MAC protocol using Latin squares for channel allocation and online/offline signcryption scheme to secure communications
access scheduling in wireless sensor networks with multiple between a sensor node and an Internet host. They proved
channel communication capabilities, as an enabling technology that this scheme has the indistinguishability against adaptive
for IoT. In GAALS, the network is organized into grids and chosen ciphertext attacks under the bilinear Diffie-Hellman
clusters according to location information, and guarantees inversion problem. It has existential unforgeability against
the network connectivity using the grid shifting algorithm. adaptive chosen messages attacks under the q-strong Diffie-
The channel access efficiency and fairness were achieved by Hellman problem in the random oracle model. This method
using compact Latin square based channel access and channel provides a new security solution for integrating wireless sensor
allocation schedules. In the paper “Fuzzy Logic Based Multi- networks into the Internet as part of the IoT. With no doubt,
dimensional Link Quality Estimation for Multi-hop Wireless routing protocols determine the performance of the network
Sensor Networks” from Zhiqiang Guo et al., the authors directly. In the paper titled “The Impact of Rank Attack on
leveraged fuzzy logic for estimating link quality in multi-hop Network Topology of Routing Protocol for Low-Power and
wireless sensor networks with collection tree protocol as the Lossy Networks”, Anhtuan Le et al., studied routing protocols
routing strategy. The proposed scheme is able to overcome the considering the impact of rank attack on network topology for
lossy and dynamic nature of wireless channels. Pradhumna low-power and lossy network. The rank concept here serves
L. Shrestha et al.. in the paper “Modeling Latency and multiple purposes including route optimization, prevention of
Reliability of Hybrid Technology Networking” studied latency loops and managing control overheads. Through raising the
and reliability in multi-hop WiFi-based and ZigBee-based weakness in low-power and lossy networks, their study reveals
hybrid networks for IoT. They deduced the theoretical results that attacks in a high forwarding load area have more impact
of delay and reliability for such hybrid networks and found on network performance. In the paper titled “A Lightweight
that they achieve better performance than traditional ZigBee- Multicast Authentication Mechanism for Small Scale IoT
based sensor networks. Liang Liu et al. in the paper “Perco- Applications”, Xuanxia Yao et al. proposed a lightweight
lation Theory Based Exposure-Path Prevention for Wireless scheme of multicast authentication by extending the original
Sensor Networks Coverage in Internet of Things” proposed Nyberg’s fast one-way accumulator. By evaluating the seven
a bond-percolation theory based solution for exposure-path cardinal properties as required by multicast authentications for
prevention in wireless sensor networks. They basically mapped resource-constraint applications, the authors concluded that the
the exposure path problem into a bond percolation model. proposed approach is suitable for small scale IoT applications.
In the paper “Quality-Driven Energy-Neutralized Power and Xiaohui Liang et al. in the paper “EPS: An Efficient and
Relay Selection for Smart Grid Wireless Multimedia Sensor Privacy-Preserving Service Searching Scheme for Smart Com-
Based IoTs”, Runan Yao et al. proposed a new quality- munity” studied how to preserve privacy in service discov-
optimized scheme for gathering multimedia information (e.g. ery and sharing for smart community. The authors proposed
sky camera data) in energy harvesting wireless sensor net- priority-based new schemes for Internet bandwidth sharing
works by jointly considering transmission power control and among different homes in the same community, which hide
relay node selection strategies based on multimedia packet users’ identity information and guarantees privacy accordingly.
distortion reduction and the energy harvesting profile of each In the paper entitled “Lithe: Lightweight Secure CoAP for the
node. In the paper “Effective Data Collection via Satellite- Internet of Things”, Shahid Raza et al. designed a lightweight
Routed Sensor System (SRSS) to Realize Global-Scaled Inter- scheme for secure constrained application protocols (CoAP)
net of Things”, Yuichi Kawamoto et al. studied effective IoT through compressing the header of datagram transport protocol
data collection via satellite systems. They proposed a divide- security (DTLS) messages.
and-conquer approach to collect data from a large number Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing become a new and feasi-
of things based upon demand. In the paper “On Optimal ble approach for sensing physical world thanks to the emerging
Scheduling in Duty-Cycled Industrial IoT Applications using of smart phones and other mobile devices. Panlong Yang et al.
the IEEE802.15.4e MAC” from Maria Rita Palattella et al., the in the paper titled with “PassFit: Participatory Sensing and
authors studied duty-cycle scheduling issue in medium access Filtering for Identifying Truthful Urban Pollution Sources”
control protocols for industrial IoT applications. Specifically, described an interesting urban sensing application for pollution
they investigated traffic-aware scheduling algorithm and com- monitoring. The major task in the paper is to identify the
pared it with conventional IEEE 802.15.4 protocol in term of truthful pollution sources with the noisy data mitigation.
energy efficiency. Dongliang Xie et al. analyzed the effect of The presented theoretical analysis in the paper proves that
multirate on the throughput and energy consumption in sensor the proposed solution can achieve optimal estimation. In
networks and designed a new MAC protocol based on the the paper “Sensing as a Service: Challenges, Solutions and
analysis, in the paper entitled “Tradeoff between Through- Future Directions” introduces a new concept, Sensing as a
put and Energy Consumption in Multirate Wireless Sensor Service (S2aaS)”, Jian Tang et al. discussed how to provide
Networks”. sensing services using mobile phones via a cloud computing
Security and privacy is another important aspect in IoT. system. The authors identified unique challenges of designing
Fivepapers focusing on IoT security and privacy were selected. and implementing an S2aaS cloud and comment on future
In the article “Practical Secure Communication for Integrat- research directions. In the paper “QoI-Aware Energy-Efficient
ing Wireless Sensor Networks into the Internet of Things” Participatory Crowdsourcing” by Chi Harold Liu et al.,
by Fagen Li et al., the authors proposed a heterogeneous the authors proposed a new energy-efficient participatory
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crowdsourcing framework with quality of information aware- logical sensor network and evaluate the performance of the
ness using ubiquitous smart devices (e.g. phones). The pro- sensor network using that framework. In addition, new design
posed approach jointly considers quality of information and framework has been used successfully to evaluate the South
energy efficiency. Esk hydrological sensor web in Tasmania. James Brusey et al.
Four papers concentrating on tracking and localization were in the paper entitled “Edge mining the Internet of Things”
selected. Joe-Air Jiang et al. in their paper “A Distributed explored the benefits of edge mining on the wireless, battery-
RSS Based Localization Using a Dynamic Circle Expanding powered, smart sensing devices of the Internet of Things. The
Mechanism” has focused the importance of localization in IoT. proposed techniques can reduce the communication overheads,
The localization offers automatically discoverable services improve the energy efficiency and reduce the remote storage
and knowledge relating toanobject’s position. By this way, requirements.
resources can be shared among devices. It is reported that the At last, there were three papers which presented new IoT
trilateration approach based on the received signal strength services and applications. In the paper “A Cyber Physical Test-
(RSS) is the most suitable forlocalization due to its simplicity bed for Virtualization of RF Access Environment for Body
of implementation and low hardware requirement among the Sensor Network”, Jie He et al., evaluated the performance
various WSN techniques designedfor positioning an unknown of wireless access and localization of body sensor networks.
node. In the paper “Item-Level RFID Tag Location Sensing The authors have presented a cyber physical test bed for
Utilizing Reader Antenna Spatial Diversity”, Shuai Shao et al.. environment virtualization to facilitate performance evaluation.
have presented a robust estimation procedure for sensing the A real time channel emulator has been used to emulate the
locations of passive UHF RFID tags. The system consists wireless channel in a cybernetic way. The emulated outputs are
of a conventional UHF RFID readers, antennas and passive compared with the empirical data obtained from actual mea-
tags, providing additional capability to existing item-level surements. An analog channel emulator for UWB technologies
RFID systems. The method is based on spatial deployment has been designed to overcome the bandwidth limitation of
of the reader antennas for maximum signal diversity. The traditional digital channel emulators. In the paper “Crowd
experimental results for a realistic retail scenario with multiple Density Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks”, the
tagged items achieve an estimation accuracy of 35 cm. In the authors presented an iterative process with two phases to
paper “SensTrack: Energy-Efficient Location Tracking with address this problem. They first give a K-means algorithm
Smartphone Sensors” by Lei Zhang et al., the authors proposed to cluster various crowd density distribution in different lev-
a new tracking service based on sensor hints available on the els based on RSSI information, after which the noises and
smart phone. Basically, SensTrack leverages build-in sensors other deviations are eliminated based on the spatial-temporal
(e.g. acceleration sensor and orientation sensor) to switch correlation of crowd distribution. They further tested the
between GPS sampling and WiFi-based indoor location to proposed strategies using 16 wireless sensor nodes and the
reduce GPS usage while maintaining high tracking accu- results show that their algorithm has an accurate, efficient,
racy. Xufei Mao in the paper “iLight: Device-Free Passive and consistent performance. In the paper titled “Towards the
Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks” proposed new Implementation of IoT for Environmental Condition Mon-
indoor passive tracking without relying on any equipment itoring in Homes” from S.D.T. Kelly et al., the authors
attached to the target, but leveraging sensor networks (e.g. implemented an IP-based home condition monitoring system
light sensors). The authors demonstrated the proposed scheme using low-cost smart sensors. They studied data aggregation
for tracking both single target and multiple targets in their and other performance metrics such as system throughput and
implementation. reliability.
Three more papers about IoT data modeling and man- Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank
agement were included in this special issue. In the paper all authors for their contributions and our reviewers for their
titled “Information Abstraction for Heterogeneous Real World efforts in reviewing the manuscripts. We also thank the Editor-
Internet Data” from Frieder Ganz et al., the authors inves- in-Chief, Dr. Krikor B. Ozanyanfor his supportive guidance
tigated how to improve the efficiency of data exchange and Alison Larkin for her timely support during the entire
betweenphysical systems (i.e. sensor devices) and cyber sys- process.
tems (i.e. applications). They proposed a new method to
construct sensor data abstraction at local gateways, which
leads to traffic load reduction in communications networks C HONGGANG WANG, Guest Editor
while maintaining data accuracy. Technological progress has InterDigital Communications
lead the sensor network domain to an era where environmental King of Prussia, PA 10406, USA
and agricultural domain applications are completely dependent [email protected]
on hydrological sensor networks. However, the quality of
data can vary significantly. In the paper titled “Performance
Evaluation of South Esk Hydrological Sensor Web: Using M AHMOUD DANESHMAND, Guest Editor
Unsupervised Machine Learning and Semantic Linked Data School of Engineering and Science
Approach”, Ritaban Dutta et al. proposed a Linked data Stevens Institute of Technology
approach, Unsupervised Pattern Recognition, and Semantic Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA
Ontologies based framework to assess the reliability of hydro- [email protected]
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M ISCHA D OHLER, Guest Editor ROSE Q INGYANG H U, Guest Editor

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Intelligent Energy Group (IQe) Utah State University Logan, UT 84321 USA
Barcelona 08860, Spain [email protected]
[email protected]

X UFEI M AO, Guest Editor H ONGGANG WANG, Guest Editor

Tsinghua University National Lab for Information University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
and Science Technology Beijing 100084, China Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA
[email protected] [email protected]

Chonggang Wang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2002. He is currently with InterDigital Communications
with focuses on Internet of Things research and development activities, including technology
development and standardization. He has co-authored more than 100 journal/conference articles
and book chapters. He is on the editorial board for several journals, including the IEEE
Communications Magazine, the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and the IEEE
T RANSACTIONS ON N ETWORK AND S ERVICE M ANAGEMENT. He has organized and is co-
organizing several special issues respectively for the IEEE S ENSORS J OURNAL, the IEEE
JSAC, the IEEE Network Magazine, the IEEE Communications Magazine, and the IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia
Technical Committee.

Mahmoud Daneshmand is a Professor of Business Intelligence and Analytics with the Howe
School of Technology Management as well as Computer Science, School of Engineering and
Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. He has more than 35 years of
teaching, research & publications, consultation, and management experience in academia and
industry, including Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, AT&T Shannon Labs–Research,
Florham Park, NJ, USA, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, University of
Tehran, Tehran, New York University, New York, NY, USA, and Stevens Institute of Technology.
He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley,
CA, USA, and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics from the University of Tehran. He has
served as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs as well as AT&T Shannon Labs-
Research; Assistant Chief Scientist of AT&T Labs, Founder and Executive Director of the AT&T
Labs university collaborations program. He is an Industry Professor with the Howe School of
Technology Management and Department of Computer Science, Co-Founder of the Business Intelligence and Analytics MS
program with the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is an expert in big data analytics, Internet of Things/Sensor & RFID
data streams analytics, data mining algorithms, machine learning, probability & stochastic processes, and statistics. He is well
recognized within the academia and industry. He has published more than 95 Journal and conference papers, authored/co-
authored three books, and holds two patents in 2009 and 2010. He has been active with IEEE journals editorships and
publications, including Guest Editor as well as IEEE conferences: Guest Editor of several IEEE journals, Co-Founder and
Chair of Steering Committee of New IEEE Internet of Things Journal, keynote speaker of many IEEE conferences, Executive
Committee of Globecom as well as ICC, a Chair of Steering Committee of IEEE ISCC, and a General Chair and Technical
Chair of many IEEE conferences.
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Mischa Dohler is now leading the Intelligent Energy [IQe] Group, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain,
with focus on smart grids and green radios. He is working on machine-to-machine, wireless
sensor, femto, cooperative, cognitive, and docitive networks. In the framework of the Mobile
VCE, he has pioneered research on distributed cooperative space-time encoded communication
systems in 1999. He has published over 150 technical journal and conference papers at a citation
h-index of 26 and citation g-index of 55, holds 12 patents, authored, co-edited, and contributed
to 19 books, has given 25 international short-courses, and participated in various standardization
activities. He has been TPC member and co-chair of various conferences, such as a Technical
Chair of IEEE PIMRC, Cannes, France, in 2008. He is an Editor-in-Chief of ETT and is/has
been holding various editorial positions for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE journals. He is a
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE ComSoc. From June 2005 to February 2008, he has been a
Senior Research Expert with the Research and Development Division, France Telecom, France.
From September 2003 to June 2005, he has been a Lecturer with King’s College London,
London, U.K. He has been London Technology Network Business Fellow receiving Anglo-Saxon business training, as well
as a Student Representative of the IEEE UKRI Section and member of the Student Activity Committee of IEEE Region 8
(Europe, Africa, Middle-East, and Russia). He received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from King’s College London
in 2003, the Diploma in electrical engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, in 2000, and the
M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from King’s College London in 1999. He studied physics in Moscow. He has won various
competitions in mathematics and physics, and participated in the 3rd round of the International Physics Olympics for Germany.

Xufei Mao (M’12) is an Associate Researcher with the IoT Center, Tsinghua National Lab for
Information and Science Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA in 2010. His research interests span wireless
ad hoc networks and pervasive computing. He participated in a number of large-scale projects in
wireless sensor network area, e.g., OASIS (Volcano-monitoring for Mount St. Helens, WA USA,
2008) and GreenOrbs (Canopy Measurement for Mount Tianmu, Zhejiang, China, 2009–2011).
He is leading the CitySee project (a CO2 emission monitoring project in urban area, Jiangshu,
China, 2011), which consists of 1200 wireless sensor nodes. He has authored/co-authored over
70 papers in different international journals, conferences, and book chapters. He is a Guest
Editor of the IEEE T SINGHUA S CIENCE AND T ECHNOLOGY J OURNAL.

Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay (M’97–SM’02–F’11) graduated from the Department of

Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, with a Gold medal and the Master of
Electrical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received
the Ph.D. (Eng.) degree from Jadavpur University and the Doctor of Engineering degree from
Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan. Currently, he is a Professor of Sensing Technology with
the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North,
New Zealand. He has over 24 years of teaching and research experiences. His current research
interests include smart sensors and sensing technology, wireless sensor networks, Internet of
Things, electromagnetics, control engineering, magnetic bearing, fault current limiter, electrical
machines, and numerical field calculation. He has authored or co-authored over 300 papers in
different international journals, conferences, and book chapter. He has edited 11 conference
proceedings. He has edited 11 special issues of international journals as a Lead Guest Editor
and 15 books with Springer-Verlag. He was awarded numerous awards throughout his career
and attracted over NZ 3.5 M on different research projects. He has delivered 195 seminars, including keynote, tutorial, invited,
and special seminars. He is a fellow of IET, U.K. He is a Topical Editor of the IEEE S ENSORS J OURNAL, an Associate
Editor of the IEEE T RANSACTIONS ON I NSTRUMENTATION AND M EASUREMENTS and a Technical Editor of the IEEE
T RANSACTIONS ON M ECHATRONICS. He has organized many international conferences either as a General Chair or Technical
Programme Chair. He is the Ex-Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society New Zealand Chapter.
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Rose Qingyang Hu (S’95–M’98–SM’06) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering

from the University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China, the M.S. degree in
mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY,
USA, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS, USA. From January 2002 to June 2004, she was an Assistant Professor with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA. She
has more than ten years of research and development experience with Nortel, RIM, and Intel,
as a Technical Manager, Senior Wireless System Architect, and Senior Research Scientist.
Currently, she is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA. Her current research interests include
next-generation wireless communication and network design and optimization, green radio,
multimedia QoS/QoE, security, wireless system modeling, and performance analysis. She has
published extensively and holds numerous patents. She received the Best Paper Award of IEEE
Globecom in 2012. She is currently serving on the editorial boards for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Security
and Communication Networks Journal, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. She has been a Guest
Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and the IEEE Network Magazine.
She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Epsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Societies.

Honggang Wang was with Bell Labs Lucent Technologies China from 2001 to 2004 as
a Technical Staff Member. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA, in 2009. He is an Assistant Professor with
the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, USA, and is a Faculty Member
of Advanced Telecommunications Engineering Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
His current research interests include wireless healthcare, body area networks, multimedia
communications, cognitive radio networks, sensor networks, cyber-physical system, and Internet
of Things. He has published more than 100 papers in his research areas, including more than 20
publications in prestigious IEEE journals. He also published papers in prestigious conferences,
such as INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICC, Globecom, and ICME. He is the winner of the Best Paper
Award of the 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. He serves as
a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE S ENSORS
J OURNAL, an Associate Editor of Wiley’s Security and Communication Networks Journal and
KSII T RANSACTIONS ON I NTERNET AND I NFORMATION S YSTEMS. He serves as a TPC Co-Chair/Vice Chair for several
conferences. He serves as a TPC Chair of 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks in 2013, Boston, USA. He
is the TPC Member for IEEE INFOCOM from 2013 to 2014, the IEEE ICC from 2011 to 2013, the IEEE Globecom from
2010 to 2013, and the IEEE WiMob in 2008 and 2009. He serves on NSF panel from 2012 to 2013. He currently serves as a
Board Co-Director of the IEEE MMTC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications) Services and Publicity.